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ICD-9-CM

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ICD-9-CM
International Classification of Disease, 9th edition, Clinical Modification
A standardized classification of disease, injuries, and causes of death, by etiology and anatomic localization and codified into a 6-digit number, which allows clinicians, statisticians, politicians, health planners and others to speak a common language, both US and internationally. Cf SNOMED, SNOP.


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The shift from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM will take the industry from 17,000 codes to almost 90,000 codes that can accommodate a host of new diagnoses and procedures.
The ICD-9-CM contains about 17,000 codes, compared with 155,000 codes in the ICD-10 code sets.
A detailed glossary is included, along with appendices on coding initiatives, error rate testing, and common ICD-9-CM codes.
 
 
 
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